'Prescription Tattoos' to help diabetics monitor blood-glucose level

[kristianna]

I'd loove to have one in the future🙂)

"Tattoos are no more just to beautify someone?s body or just way of expression. Scientists at Draper Laboratory have given tattoos another meaning. They will soon be prescribing semi-permanent medical tattoos a noninvasive way for diabetic people to keep tabs on their glucose levels. The ?Prescription? Tattoos composed of nanoparticles when injected into the skin will respond to glucose in the bloodstream by fluorescing like DayGlo under infrared light thereby letting the diabetic patient to determine if an insulin shot is necessary. That?s sounds amazing for tattoos can be stroke of luck of many diabetic people."

 

[Curdster]

Cool. I would get one of these. Would be even cooler if it could display a number too!!!

 

[redrevis]

They will soon be prescribing

Sorry to be synical, but this technology has been talked about for a few years and nothing has come of it so far. To say it will soon be prescribed but to then give no specific timeline or dates of testing etc, i'm not going to be holding my breath on this one.

Don't get me wrong, if it does become available and it does work, I'll be standing in line to get one 🙂

 

[LisaLQ]

I'd be up for it - any excuse for another tattoo!

 

[mimms2]

WOW that sounds really intresting , id have one , I have a tattoo of my grandaughters name her DOB and the flower daisy which is her name .